Peter Rost (politician)

Peter Rost (* 19th September 1930 as Otto Ludwig Peter Rosenstiel in Berlin , German Empire ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party German / Jewish descent.

Life

The parents, Friedrich Rosenstiel and the Lutheran Elisabeth Merz, went to England in 1937. The father had previously been the business editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung and later went to New York without being able to bring his family to join. Rost studied geography at the University of Birmingham and later worked as a stock trader and business journalist.

In 1966, Rost applied as a Conservative for the Labor Party safe parliamentary seat in the constituency of Sunderland- North in the House of Commons and lost. In the 1970 elections he won the Labor Party seat in south-east Derbyshire . The constituency was changed in 1983 and won back from Rost as the new Erewash constituency . He held this seat until 1992.

Act as parliamentarians

During his time in the British Parliament, Rost was a member of the Energy Select Committee and in this role advocated the use of renewable energy and warned against the waste of British resources in the form of North Sea gas and oil. Further goals of his proposals for saving energy were the reduction of the losses in the British cooling towers of the coal-fired power stations and the expansion of the district heating network .

Rost was the initiator of the annual parliamentary meetings with representatives of the parties in the German Bundestag . The first conference of this kind took place at his country house in Hertfordshire .

Publications

together with the Bow Group

• Peter Rost / Bow Group Energy Standing Committee: Energy: The New Priorities , 1995, ISBN 0-861291212 .

Autobiography

• Peter Rost: Weimar to Westminster. To Autobiography . Dynasty Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-9553507-5-7 .

Web links

• Peter Rost at the Hansard (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Outsiders with country residence in FAZ of October 4, 2011, page 8